Quality is Quality: Quality is quality! As you know I fix and maintain vintage clocks, its become a small business and hobby. Recently I baught a Waterybury 20s Office clock with a damaged face but was running and a non running clock of the same type with an intact face. Bored I pulled it apart, the seller had attempted to fix it before and used machine oil to lube the wheels (Gears and Cogs). Anyway, it was jammed soild. The oil did not help nor did the spring being wound so tight it had become kinked. I had buy a replacement; big mistake! I housed the main sping, and fitted the workings back together and begain my tests. I wound the clock up, and ping! The main spring snapped, and flew at me, slashing my arm open. I had to go to hospital and get a couple of stitches. In my time working with vintage clocks, short of doing something stupid a main spring shouldn't break, I've worked with forging from the 1800s, to mid to late 1900s. Then I read the package, made in india!

Im thinking of quitting inktober (yet again) before i even really started on it. Idk just the thought of planning and actually making an ink drawing every day stresses me out. Although it was something that I easily did in the past. Even multiple ones a day... I think it's because of not having as much time to invest in art anymore I kinda lost my connection to it. I rarely get to sit down to actually paint. Every year I start the inktober challeng in hope to get my connection back but every time for the past 3 years I end up having to quit halfway through for multiple reasons like getting behind lacking time. This year I'm already stressed about having to catch up on the first few days that I missed. Maybe I just had a bad start...I wanted to warm up by finishing one of least years works that I never got to complete and I totally messed it up and on top it tore apart when I tried to remove the one year old masking tape... Seems like an omen... I will still dedicate this month to art and especially watercolor painting. But I think I will not do the inktober challenge for now. Maybe I will get to do the last half of it later but just now I need to get back into the peaceful/mindful mindset that I need for doing watercolor. Pushing myself with a challenge will not help here. I started watching YouTube draw with me videos of one of my favorite artists there. It helps getting back into watercolors and Inks.

That feeling when Finally having time to sit down and actually rest with nothing to prepare or plan feels like submerging your ears in the water at a loud swimming pool... I have really reached my limit this week mentally and physically. I often struggle with post summer burnout in September/October but this week I had to function perfectly during work and so many social obligations whereas I had things to prepare for or join in. I didn't get any real me time to unwind because I had to run errands and prepare things til late in the night. Never getting to bed before 3 or 4 am... I ran on sleep deprivation an burnout. Yesterday I was close to the point of breaking down exhaustion. I felt my knees almost give out in the store... Now it's finally over I have finally time for me with nothing to prepare for others. I will probably have a hardcore social shutdown but thb I need it 😅

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I like Halloween as much as the next goth, but I'm not going to water it down or sweeten it up a bit. It's a day for evil, the day when the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. Demons be praised and devils be raised! Now give me some old school candy and forever be cursed! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-oH2bsfe2k

Every time it gets close to Fall I listen to Blackwater Park Not a huge Opeth fan, but the albums I do listen to, I love <3 https://youtu.be/gAJY80FSFzM?si=oj8jhPNbdzQ5Sli0

https://life-in-the-lofthouse.com/taco-bell-crunchwrap-supreme-copycat/ Crunchwrap Supreme (Copycat) Copycat Crunchwrap Supremes are loaded with seasoned ground beef, nacho cheese, sour cream and more wrapped inside a flour tortilla and baked to perfection. Ingredients 1 ½ pounds lean ground beef 1 small yellow onion chopped 2 Tablespoons taco seasoning 1/4 cup water 1 teaspoon minced garlic 1 jar nacho cheese or Queso cheese dip 6 burrito-size flour tortillas 6 tostada shells or corn tortillas* see note 1 cup sour cream 2 cups shredded lettuce 1 tomato diced 1 cup shredded Mexican cheese blend cooking spray Instructions In a large skillet, over medium-high heat, cook and crumble ground beef and onion, until beef is no longer pink. Drain grease. Stir in the taco seasoning mix, water and minced garlic. Continue to cook until it starts to boil. Reduce heat to low and let simmer for 5 minutes. Warm the nacho cheese sauce or queso cheese in a microwave-safe bowl. Place the flour tortillas on a large plate. Microwave for 20 seconds to warm them. Lay one flour tortilla on a flat surface. Spread 1/2 cup of taco meat onto the center of the tortilla. Drizzle a couple Tablespoons of nacho cheese over the meat. Top meat with one tostada shell or crispy corn tortilla *see notes below. Spread a thin layer of sour cream over the tostada shell. Top with lettuce, tomato and shredded Mexican cheese. To fold the crunch wrap, start with the bottom of the flour tortilla and fold the edge up over the center. Continue to work your way around, folding the flour tortilla over the center fillings. There will be a spot left open in the center; cut a piece of another flour tortilla, and tuck it in the center, so it's fully covered. Repeat with all remaining tortillas, tostadas and fillings. You’ll have 6 crunch wraps total. Spray a large, non-stick skillet with cooking spray. Heat over medium heat. Place one crunchwrap seam-side down onto the skillet. Cook for 1 to 2 minutes, or until golden-brown. Carefully, flip over and cook other side until golden-brown. Repeat process with all crunch wraps. Serve immediately. Notes *If using corn tortillas, heat oven to 425° F. Place corn tortillas on a baking sheet and bake for 8 minutes or until crispy.

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